Dwyane Wade of Miami Heat plans to return from knee injury, come off bench against San Antonio Spurs

Summary of 3 articles · Updated Jan 26, 2014

Ray Allen started against the Spurs and Wade entered the game with 4:41 left in the first quarter. After missing four games with knee soreness, Dwyane Wade plans to return when the Miami Heat host the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday. Knowing now that the plan… (more) was for Wade to come off the bench all along, let's look back at Spoelstra's answer this morning when I asked him this question: This is kind of important, you know, because Wade had been a starter in 495 consecutive games until Sunday. Center Greg Oden had been out until two weeks ago while rehabbing his knee and his now healthy along with Shane Battier and Mario Chalmers, who had been our recently.

Heat's Wade returns as reserve

A look back at Spoelstra's pregame comments on rotations after learning Dwyane Wade would be the team's sixth man

So, this is interesting. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra went through his pregame news conference on Sunday without mentioning that Dwyane Wade would be returning to the lineup as the team's sixth man. This is kind of important, you know, because Wade had bee…